Professor Randall J. Weselake Ph.D.

Randall J. Weselake holds a Ph.D. in plant biochemistry from the University of Manitoba (Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada). His doctoral research was conducted at the Grain Research Laboratory of the Canadian Grain Commission in Winnipeg. Following a research associateship with the National Research Council of Canada in Saskatoon (Saskatchewan, Canada), Randall was a Faculty member in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at the University of Lethbridge (Alberta, Canada) from 1989-2004 where he served as Chair from 1996-1999. Currently, Randall is Professor and Tier I Canada Research Chair in Agricultural Lipid Biotechnology in the Department of Agricultural, Food and Nutritional Science at the University of Alberta. He also served as Scientific Director of the Alberta Innovates Phytola Centre from 2010-2016, and is a Fellow of the AOCS (2014) and Associate Editor for Lipids. Randall has conducted extensive research on the biochemistry, molecular biology and biotechnology of storage lipid biosynthesis in plants and other organisms.